Place to go Fishing this weekend!!!

I'd like to know a few wading areas near Seabrook. One day, I will make the venture into the water. I'm just unsure about where to go.

For bait, you can try 3 Amigo's in the Seabrook Shipyard. From NASA Rd. 1, go South on 146, then exit 10th St., which is just before the Kemah bridge. At the stop sign, take a right. At the dead end, turn left, then a right at the next stop sign. Follow the winding road, and it ends at 3 Amigo's. They almost always have live shrimp and Black Salties. They have also been known to carry croaker and mud minnows from time to time. Also, there is the Bait Barn in Bacliff. I think you turn on 646 (somebody correct me if I'm wrong; the road goes between a Diamond Shamrock and a Jack in the Box). The Bait Barn will be on the right just past JitB. It's a little ole run down place that looks like a stiff breeze will flatten. But the people are nice and their live shrimp are always very lively. They also carry Black Salties and occasionally other live baits.

I am planning on hitting the Pine Gully Park pier early in the morning (at 6:00 when they open) to try for some flounder and whatever else is biting, hopefully a trout or red.

I have luck in Seabrook

but like most places it can be hit or miss. Early mornings seem to be the best for me. I like second street, fish the current around the tubes, the fish sit about 5' from the bank (flounder) the trout and reds run back and forth. If the fish are there you will know very quickly, if not you can spend all day and have nothing to show. I spend around maybe an hour, hitting both sides but I throw soft plastic. In the winter I try using small mullet or mud minnows and you can catch several flounder. If no bait I use a DOA and have good results.
It's not a place to try and get limits but if a few fish are wanted it works. Big plus for me is I can leave home and be there in less than five minutes. I was getting upset with the guides and boat owners. They would stop there and throw cast nets to get bait. It is clearly posted NO CAST NETS in english and spanish. This is where we catch flounder during the runs. Lots of seniors and kids fish that area, and the dead fish and shad on the ground causing the fire ants to be everywhere. This year I will be taking my video camera and giving copies to the proper people. I was also thinking about a website showing the videos of the law breakers just in case the fines don't work. It's just an idea for now.

bill said:

I was getting upset with the guides and boat owners. They would stop there and throw cast nets to get bait. It is clearly posted NO CAST NETS in english and spanish. This is where we catch flounder during the runs. Lots of seniors and kids fish that area, and the dead fish and shad on the ground causing the fire ants to be everywhere. This year I will be taking my video camera and giving copies to the proper people. I was also thinking about a website showing the videos of the law breakers just in case the fines don't work. It's just an idea for now.

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The cast net thing at 2nd St. just ticks me off to no end. Some people don't care what regulations are in place, they just do what they want, regardless of other people. One night, a family came through throwing their cast net. I didn't mind, even though it is illegal, as long as they stayed far enough away that it didn't mess with my fishing. Didn't happen. Not 5 feet from me, their cast net got caught up in a rock. What did they do? One of the guys disrobed (down to his boxers) and climbed in the water to get it unstuck. To say the least, I was fuming, but didn't say anything. I was by myself and there were a couple guys about my age or a little older, a wife, a grandmother and 2 young kids. The caster would empty his net and the kids would pick up what was caught and put it in a bucket their grandmother was carrying. So not only were they doing something illegal, they were teaching it to their kids. It's sad, really.